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European Futurists Conference Lucerne

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Winning in a Downturn - Using Future Insights to Succeed in Turbulent TimesWe have entered an age of turbulence where the certainties of the past decade will be 'unsystematically' overturned. Old assumptions about how to govern, educate, lead
Islamic Banking and Islamic InvestmentIn the midst of the current financial crisis, Islamic banking & finance stands at a crossroad. After at least a couple of decades of its close association with the Western capitalist institutions, Islamic
Touchstones: Conceptual Products for Sustainable FuturesImaginationLancaster is a new creative research lab at Lancaster University that explores futures for people, products, places and systems. Stuart will introduce this initiative and prese
Future of LifestylesThe Philips Design probe programme is a far future research initiative attempting to develop lifestyle scenarios 10 - 20 years ahead. Design "provocations" are created with the purpose of stimulating debate and critique fro
Desert Tech. Clean Power from the Sahara for EuropeThe DESERTEC-project offers the opportunity to exploit the inexhaustible clean solar energy from deserts mainly by proven solar-thermal technologies. Only 1,7 % of all desert areas around the
The Futures of Technologies and the Technologies of the FuturesChange is not constant, in fact, change is accelerating very fast. Some technologies are radically changing humanity, in general, and also changing human beings, in particular. Man
Turning to the Future after the Age of Easy GrowthThe need for transformation beyond the turmoil is particularly acute in the „new“ member-states of the European Union, which have been hit the most in the current crisis. For several past years
The Transformation of Europe: Future challenges of the Union and the StatesAlthough deeper than many before, the current crisis may be seen as just another cycle of capitalism. The author believes, however, that its roots are deeper and very m
Is it really good to know the Future? How expectation, chance and error make the world go roundWhy we can predict more and more things - new developments in probability sciences and data managementThe future of Futurists: How we can survive a
Eckard Foltin - Head Creative Center, Bayer MaterialScience AGFrom Visions to Products - Future Living 2020Bayer MaterialScience defines a strategy and taps into new business, both in existing and completely new markets. The objective is to b
Ciaran McGinley, Project Initiator EPO Scenarios for the Future, European Patent OfficeOpen Innovation - Do we still need Patents?In a world where knowledge is increasingly shared and innovation becomes a collaborative process, are traditiona
Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt (Stiftung für Zukunfsfragen)Europe 2030: What Europeans Expect from the FutureMore than 11.000 Europeans from nine countries were asked about their views of the future in eight different fields (from future of work or in
Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey Methuselah FoundationA True Cure for Human AgingIt may seem premature to be discussing approaches to the effective elimination of human aging as a cause of death at a time when essentially no progress has yet been
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos BoulouchosChairman of the Board of Energy Science Center of ETH ZurichA long-term vision for a sustainable energy system needs to address a multitude of challenges. Policy and socioeconomic aspects are crucial but the
Anders Berntell (Anders Berntell, Executive Director Stockholm International Water Institute) - The Water CrisisThe UN, World Bank and world leaders have warned that the lack of water resources will lead to global crisis this century. UN Secre
A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs, and bandits of all stripes. Since the end of the Cold War, the global illicit economy has consistently
Life After Wall Street – Indicates the finance crisis the end of globalizations?Recent turmoil in the global financial markets has often been described in the media as a tectonic shift in the global financial system. Prof. John L. Casti, a f
The 32 nodes of the Millennium Project around the world have invited voluntary participation of over 2500 futurists, business planners, policy analysts, and scholars who have participated in the production and updating of 15 global challenges o
Ian Pearson, BT - The Future of Life on EarthLife on earth is all still based on the same shared biological life processes. This will change dramatically over the next century, as humans discover how life works at the most basic levels, how to
Dr. Peter Maskus, Acabion TM Visionary Motion and MIKOVA Systems Consulting Mobility of the 21st CenturyHistory of mobility is easily narrated: 1800 came with the railroads. 1900 came with cars. The 21st century will come with another fundame
Innovation occurs at the intersection of invention and insight. With the example of IBM, the presentation will describe how ICT has fundamentally changed IBM's innovation process, how it has enabled massive and global collaboration around new i
Random mutation and hoping for a success: that is generally believed to be quite ineffective. Experiments in the laboratory, however, show that artificial evolution becomes a sophisticated optimization technique, if the genetic rules of biologi
In the current global condition of complexity and uncertainty where asymmetric threats prevail, Singapore has responded to the challenges by sustaining innovation on both governance and technological fronts through the Risk Assessment and Horiz
Europe is facing some rapid changes in the 21. century. How does the population see these changes, what are citizens afraid of and how do they want to live in the future? The CEO of the BAT Future Foundation will present first results of a stud
The architecture of global statistics has not yet provided the data access needed for optimal development of information technology.The animation technology developed for computer games is many years ahead of the technology used to convert tim
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